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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marlee get home from school every day?
(a) She rides the bus.
(b) Her mother drives her.
(c) Mrs. McDaniels drives her.
(d) She walks.

2. What does Marlee do after her presentation is over?
(a) Meets up with David.
(b) Throws up.
(c) Eats a burger.
(d) Has a glass of coke.

3. How does Marlee decide she will try to contact Liz?
(a) She goes to the Negro movie theater.
(b) She tries to find out Liz's phone number.
(c) She writes Liz a note and takes it to the pastor of the Negro church in Liz's part of town.
(d) She waits for Liz at the zoo.

4. What is Marlee's favorite subject?
(a) English.
(b) History.
(c) Art.
(d) Math.

5. How does Marlee know Ms. Winthrop?
(a) Ms. Winthrop is the diner owner.
(b) Ms. Winthrop is her mother's cousin.
(c) Ms. Winthrop is her piano teacher.
(d) Ms. Winthrop is her Sunday school teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Ms. Winthrop introduce Marlee to?

2. How does Marlee's friend Sally treat her when she becomes overcome with anxiety at the pool?

3. What does Marlee's father tell her about who Pastor George is?

4. What does Liz bring with her the first time she meets Marlee after she is forced to leave school?

5. What is the phrase that was used for the first Negro students to attend a white public school in Little Rock?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marlee discover her new math teacher, Mr. Harding, does differently than her previous math teacher on her first day of school?

2. Why does Marlee decide to give Liz a chance and agree to work on a school history project with her instead of with her usual partner Sally?

3. How does Liz give Marlee her phone number so only Marlee will know what it is?

4. Why does Marlee's father refuse to let Judy go to a private school?

5. What does Ms. Taylor tell Marlee about the reason that Liz is not at school on the day they are supposed to present their history project?

6. Why is Marlee disappointed with JT's behavior on the first day she meets him to help him with his math homework?

7. When Governor Faubus orders the schools in Little Rock to close, how do Marlee's parents react to the news?

8. What does Marlee's father tell her about his reasons for driving her to school every day?

9. What does Betty Jean tell Marlee about some of the reasons Negroes try to pass as white?

10. Why does Judy make Marlee promise to say at least one full sentence on her first day of school?

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